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Author: Jacqueline Winspear

Genre: Crime, Mystery & Thriller
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780749040048
Rights: UK & Comm Ex. Can.
Pub. Date: 27th August 2012

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Price: £7.99

Format: Paperback

Part of the series:
The Maisie Dobbs Mystery Series

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In the summer of 1932, Maisie Dobbs's career takes an exciting new turn when she accepts an undercover assignment directed by Scotland Yard's Special Branch and the Secret Service. Posing as a junior lecturer, she is sent to a college in Cambridge to monitor any activities, "not in the interests of His Majesty's Government."

When the college's controversial pacifist founder and principal, Greville Liddicote, is murdered, Maisie is directed to stand back as Detective Chief Superintendent Robert MacFarlane and Detective Chief Inspector Richard Stratton spearhead the investigation. She soon discovers, however, that the circumstances of Liddicote's death appear inextricably linked to the suspicious comings and goings of faculty and students under her surveillance.

As the storm clouds of World War II gather on the horizon, Maisie must overcome a reluctant Secret Service, discover shameful hidden truths about Britain's conduct during the Great War, and face off against the rising powers of the Nazi Party. 

'Superb new Maisie Dobbs caper...captures the mood of the early 1930s perfectly and was a joy to read.'Booksmonthly

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